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The Way Back
When it comes to politics, things seem to take a completely different turn. The story tells of three men who are running for Communist Russia for a while and there may be other people fleeing with them to get what they want.
28 May 1985, Berlin, Germany
12 November 1980, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
20 April 1946, Tokyo, Japan
12 August 1980, Bulgaria
7 April 1956, Ruse, Bulgaria
21 April 1984, Timisoara, Romania
16 May 1978, London, England, UK
13 June 1977, Bucharest, Romania
12 April 1994, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1963, London, England, UK
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
18 March 1954, Popovitza, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
23 March 1949, Sofia, Bulgaria
July 24, 2013
The Way Back is an inspiring story that is beautifully photographed and full of interesting and well acted characters.
February 16, 2013
a solid, resonant meditation on survival, on hope, on the value of life in the face of implacable hostility, portrayed memorably by an excellent cast and [Director] Weir's vast, brutal, awe-inspiring landscapes
June 22, 2013
"The Way Back" is a boring movie. Repetitive, protracted and wearisome. Mostly, though: It's just long.
August 21, 2016
[Peter] Weir is marvelously attuned to the natural world but keeps the focus on the human story while acknowledging the power of the natural world, not hostile so much as inhospitable...
June 30, 2013
Like its characters, this drama plods along but its compelling plot makes it worth seeing.
January 31, 2011
The abiding sensation, at the end, is one not of fulfillment but of exhaustion.
May 03, 2015
A gorgeously mounted epic that for all its virtues feels maddeningly remote.
April 12, 2016
The man-versus-the-natural world story is in Weir's wheelhouse, and Harris and Farrell get into a scene-stealing duel. Worth the trek.
January 31, 2011
This is an impressive production and technical feat, but through most of it, I kept thinking about how difficult the filming conditions must have been, and not about the lives of the men in front of me.
January 31, 2011
he long stretches between stations make The Way Back an arduous road.
February 03, 2011
Eventually the film itself is something of an endurance test, and not as rewarding as it hopes to be. But it's a worthy venture, earnest and well-produced and occasionally gripping.
February 18, 2011
Weir has always loved atmospheric locales and group dynamics, and here he makes the most of both
